@TheLifeOutline - looser query borders (3 levels)
Niche = "Your Life as Every Rank of X". Same gates as production (300k / 30d + 150k / 15d). ONLY the GPT query borders were loosened.
The tight prompt kept re-finding the same handful. Looser queries swap the "X" to more subjects (hacker, lottery, MMA, net worth, trillionaire...) - which surfaces real SAME-FORMAT competitors that were being missed. Off-world results stay at score 1-2 and are culled; each report renders the top 8 qualified.
Level 1 - Mild
Wider sub-angles, still inside the niche →
temp 0.7, 60/40.
Surfaces: Lumicus (Dark Web Hacker), Master POV (Lottery), POV Pulse (MMA), Dolor Pintado (Zetas), Wallace (Viltrumite), My Chaotic Stories
Level 2 - Medium
One ring out: siblings + parent category →
temp 0.8, 50/50.
NEW finds: Hypothetically ("POV: You're a Trillionaire"), Just Some Guy Stories ("Your Life as World's Most Wanted Hacker"), Special Forces variant
Level 3 - Wide
Aggressive sibling/parent variety →
temp 0.9, 40/60. Best top-8 here - all direct "every level" clones.
NEW finds: Willie Finance ("Your Life at Every Level of Net Worth $0-$100M"), Dark Ledger ("How Banks Treat You at Every Level of Wealth")